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There is, for instance, a whole group of bullfighters whose shapes, except for a brusque vitality of placement that was always Picasso's hallmark and never quite left his fist, might almost have been produced by David Stein, Elmyr de Hory, or some other moderately gifted faker. Every artist has the right to his own cliches, but the last Picassos are only startling as cliche...
...formulating freshman assignments, Yale also takes into account the placement of small minority groups, such as black women or Spanish-speaking students. For example, Chicano freshmen are put in four colleges one year, in four different ones the next and so forth...
...overwhelming evidence indicates that this year is not just one rotten exception in a series of smoothly-engineered seasons of housing placement. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life has persisted in upholding a system of ineffective social engineering that will only grow more complicated and less manageable as the demands of new generations of bureaucratic manipulators are added...
...student's undergraduate career. The differences between the Houses are slight and for the most part unimportant. But the current system in which students are urged to subject the Houses to close scrutiny and decide which one is best only accentuates petty differences and exaggerates the importance of housing placement...
...from the upper-middlebrow range of A Man for All Seasons and Behold a Pale Horse, is a good director. A onetime film editor, he is a master of the short cuts that are the shortcut to supplying lots of information effortlessly. He is also a master of camera placement, a man who can give us the essence of a scene in one elegant, yet self-effacing setup. As a result, what might have been just another expensive entertainment becomes, on a technical level, a textbook on reels in the near-forgotten subject of concise moviemaking...